so um GFD's CTF maps topic thread thing 'k

[Anonymous]

This is my thread with experimental maps I'm making in it. I hope you enjoy it.

Divided Forest:

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I made this nature-themed CTF map, originally to practice mapping in Skulltag's format, and for personal use with some friends, but I decided to clean it up a bit and stick it here for you guys too. Download here.





The first thing you'll notice if you start up this map is that you spawn with the Quick Boomerang instead of the Mega Buster. What why would I do that. NO LONG-RANGE WEAPONS. SHORT-RANGE WEAPONS ONLY. FINAL DESTINATION. Yeah, all the weapons on this map are shorter-ranged ones. Why? I tried to soup up the gameplay a bit with this map. You'll probably notice that, with this being quite different from most CTF maps.
The sides are much more defined, especially with that huge river in the middle. Note that this river will kill you. Hence all those RCs and Item-1s. One Flag CTF isn't really ideal because of this river, but it's possible; the white flag just isn't really easy to get. Also, this river makes bots mostly useless as they stand there shooting at the fence.
I put the flags atop hills out in the open to make it really visible to anyone if someone is running for the flag. People hiding within those snakes on the sides, though, are not so visible. You've gotta keep a close eye, or a well organized team could jump out from behind those snakes and take you by surprise. Best to hunt them down when you see them crossing the river.
There's a forest and a big mucky river on each side that will hinder your progress, but you can use the river flowing down from the hill to speed up your escape, if you go with the flow. Rivers seemed to become a big thing in this for some reason.
I didn't try too hard to make this visually appealing, but at least all those snakes are texturally accurate man that was a pain to do. Snake Man's music because I like him and I'm too lazy to compose an original song for this right now.
I dunno. I tried to make the gameplay different in this map but I think I just ended up with some bad level design instead. Chances are most of you probably won't like it, but whatevah.

Canaduh:

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This one I made because I wanted to figure out how to do that cool faux 3d architecture thing like in Pharaoh Man's stage. Also it suddenly got really damn cold up here in Canada which inspired the theme. Seriously there were snow days up here a few days ago. Download here.





This one's a pretty small and straightforward CTF map, especially compared to Divided Forest. You have a big igloo with an outside area. Inside the igloo is a circular hockey rink or something and it's really slippery. The benches are kinda slippery too. Outside there's snow and mountains and that's pretty and also a bunch of blocks of ice that are slippery again. It's also very easy to tell what side you're on. Yeah there's not a whole lot to know.
The snow was irritating because either I put it in the upper portal and it never touched the ground, I put it in the lower portal and it only started right above the ground, or the third option that I went with which was to put the snow in the skybox which still looks kinda weird but shut up. I couldn't figure out a way to get the one side to have a red skybox and the other blue without screwing up the igloo so deal wit it.
Blizzard Man's music because composer's block and he's supposed to be Canadian I think. Or Russian. Pretty sure that hat makes him Canadian though.
It occurred to me after finishing this up that the red and blue could be interpreted to mean the colours of that flag of the USA but shut up ok it's Canaduh. Yeah.

[TERRORsphere]

So essentially the layout is a rectangle with a death pit in the centre...

Well you've mastered detailing but the layout looks really dull.

[Anonymous]

Yeahh. This idea for an "open" layout worked in my head, but not in application.
It's kind of a failed experiment.

[CutmanMike]

How is it failed? Have you tried this online yet? I can see potential for cover so give it a go online before labelling it a waste of time.

[KillerChair]

Screenshots looking fancy there!

I say dont quit on this one. See if you can make it a bit more interesting

[Disco]

Permission to add this to the wiki?

[Anonymous]

Sure, go ahead. I mean, if someone else likes this map, so be it, but I'm a huge self-critic  
Of course I'm still looking at this open-stage nature concept but I'm probably just going to make a whole new map rather than try to do anything else with this one.

[NSP7]

That river is a pain in the ass, rush coil won't reach the middle making the item ones the only way to get the flag or cross and even then centaur flash could knock them back while crossing. Besides the river in general it's a good map.

[Disco]

Sakugarne can do it too, I thought it was really the only convenient way.

Tested it out online and this map has a lot of potential though.

I highly suggest adding more "stones" and making the river easier to cross in general and you could have a pretty playable map.

[Anonymous]

I knew the biggest problem people would have would be with that stupid river    Really the idea was to have much more defined "sides" to the map by creating a barrier which is not easily crossed and easily guarded, similar perhaps to an IRL capture the flag game, where teams usually remain on their respective sides because until they cross the border in the middle they can't be caught, so you have to be more organized and strategic as a team. But, this river doesn't appear to be a very ideal way to carry out this idea. I haven't done any Skulltag mapping before, really, and I'm still mucking around with this concept, but I've not yet found a way to implement this in a more practical way. Getting closer though!
Also, @NSP7, I don't believe Centaur Flash is in this map?

[Disco]

I think a difficult-to-cross river in itself isn't a bad idea, this just needs to throw the players a bit more of a bone

[OrangeMario]

This is a good challanging map, but I wonder why I start out with quick boomerang for some reason instead of megabuster.

[Anonymous]

The first thing you'll notice if you start up this map is that you spawn with the Quick Boomerang instead of the Mega Buster. What why would I do that. NO LONG-RANGE WEAPONS. SHORT-RANGE WEAPONS ONLY. FINAL DESTINATION. Yeah, all the weapons on this map are shorter-ranged ones. Why? I tried to soup up the gameplay a bit with this map. You'll probably notice that, with this being quite different from most CTF maps.

[Anonymous]

Added a new map, "Canaduh," to the first post. Pretty sure that's my final version but let me know if you find inconsistencies or problems.


Guys how do I change the topic's title
I just want this to be "GFD's CTF topic or something" or something

[Disco]

Just edit the subject in the first post I believe